A Description of Picairn’s Island and Its Inhabitants. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bonty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.

Hardcover, original purple cloth; spine lettering gilt. 7 p. catalogue + 2 engravings + xii + 303 pp. Illustrated with 2 engravings. Cloth faded and rubbed, with light stain on rear board; foxing, esp. to endpapers and plates, and small chip to catalogue margin; otherwise still a nice, tight copy. Spine lettering reads:” The Family Library, No. 31″, with title at spine foot. The two engravings are supposed to be facing pp. 44 & 273 respectively. An abridged version of Sir John Barrow’s “Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty”.